I can't BELIEVE how long that string went on for! The salient facts do seem pretty obvious to me:
1. RL were penalized for illegal markers
2. RL have the cleanest reputation of any paintball team ever
3. This occurrence will no doubt tarnish their otherwise lilly white reputation
4. But not by much! No one on the string has intentionally had anything bad to say about RL (that I have spotted)!
It had the potential to be a very interesting string, but when we just get people posting one sentence posts that could be summed up by one emoticon we aren't achieving anything except p!$$ing each other off.
This is a very interesting issue, one worthy of column inches in a newspaper (if paintball was more popular), but we have descended past the gutter press to the playground over this. That was the most boring string on p8ntballer I have EVER read! It worries me that grown men (I didn't notice any women... maybe this should tell y'all something) think that that was a worth while use of their time.
So this is a call to all the moderators to do something about a string that descends into insults, please guys, give the two (or more) protagonists each others e-mail address or something and tell them to sort it out! Maybe that is not a good solution, and I understand that when someone who is a moderator, editor of the mag etc get worked up that it is not easy to do something about it (Yes I guess I am criticising Robbo here), maybe there should be somebody independent handling such incidences.
Before Robbo flames me I would like to qualify my criticisms above: I understand that noone should have to put up with some of the cr@p people say about you and close friends of yours I am just saying that when you go "off on one" (if you'll excuse the expression) it all gets nasty, boring and is not constructive.
Also I see that it wasn't just Robbo who was responsible for the tone of this string, FAR from it!
I love this board, it is a fantastic resource, which is why I am posting this as a apeal to the powers that be to keep it that way.
Richard
1. RL were penalized for illegal markers
2. RL have the cleanest reputation of any paintball team ever
3. This occurrence will no doubt tarnish their otherwise lilly white reputation
4. But not by much! No one on the string has intentionally had anything bad to say about RL (that I have spotted)!
It had the potential to be a very interesting string, but when we just get people posting one sentence posts that could be summed up by one emoticon we aren't achieving anything except p!$$ing each other off.
This is a very interesting issue, one worthy of column inches in a newspaper (if paintball was more popular), but we have descended past the gutter press to the playground over this. That was the most boring string on p8ntballer I have EVER read! It worries me that grown men (I didn't notice any women... maybe this should tell y'all something) think that that was a worth while use of their time.
So this is a call to all the moderators to do something about a string that descends into insults, please guys, give the two (or more) protagonists each others e-mail address or something and tell them to sort it out! Maybe that is not a good solution, and I understand that when someone who is a moderator, editor of the mag etc get worked up that it is not easy to do something about it (Yes I guess I am criticising Robbo here), maybe there should be somebody independent handling such incidences.
Before Robbo flames me I would like to qualify my criticisms above: I understand that noone should have to put up with some of the cr@p people say about you and close friends of yours I am just saying that when you go "off on one" (if you'll excuse the expression) it all gets nasty, boring and is not constructive.
Also I see that it wasn't just Robbo who was responsible for the tone of this string, FAR from it!
I love this board, it is a fantastic resource, which is why I am posting this as a apeal to the powers that be to keep it that way.
Richard
